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I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Oh this is sad. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is one of those plays that had a huge impact on me. RIP Tom.

A @gailmyerscough.co.uk graphic of an Accuphase E-3000 - now. What shall we do with it?

Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage. GB News:

The utter preposterousness of this interview. A media figure talking about BBC bias while describing the president as his "friend". A child could see trough it.

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

A fantastic piece of data journalism from Sky News. A masterclass of data visualisation. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Wikipedia vs Elon Musk In a world of algorithms and AI slop, the simple joy of aimlessly wandering through a website of ideas is worth preserving. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/wikipedia-... My newsletter, out now.

This is a huge story but massively under the radar in the UK. A US Christian legal org called the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is working to roll back abortion rights here using the same playbook it used in the US: briefing politicians, watching, waiting. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

Lots of flag-botherers over on Facebook now suddenly demanding the council step in to take these down www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These guys look adorable and their demand is very reasonable

Not to make light of the editorial failure, but look how far Twitter lies now permeate in to normal discourse. We think we know about the racism but the utter contempt for truth since Musk bought the platform is deliberate & very dangerous. You can’t foment racism with fact checkers in the building.

Farage plays the everyman, but he’s not harmless, he’s not honest, and he’s not on your side. ❌

This is because Reform relies on building a coalition of disordered counterpublics reacting against distrusted institutions, and the anti-vax community is part of that, so he knows he needs to keep is vague to avoid upsetting them.

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

First they came for the “T”, now they’re coming for the “L, G and B”.

Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...

“Bustling crowds wait for overwhelmingly non-white shop staff to serve up their alcohol, never wondering about who would turn up to scrub Westminster station clean of their urine at the end of the day.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed

If you want to know what’s really going on, have a look at this thread. This far from “Unite the Kingdom”. #DivideTheKingdom

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Again. Perfection.

Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.

The flag “debate” is simple. Is flying an England flag inherently racist? Obviously not. Are the people currently doing it en masse racist? Clearly yes.

This is so good, from a journalistic pov but also it's managed to make me laugh when the subject matter at hand is dark. Famtastic door knocking, boots on the ground reporting. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂

Buyout coming in 3…2…

Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.

🔴Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Their Data to ‘Unregulated’ Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records Age verification firms used by social media platforms include company tied to a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence ...

Easily one of the most valuable research areas of the past half-century.

This is awful.

Among the many terrifying things about this, is the thought that actual terrorists are probably making hay because the anti-terror police are putting resources into this utter nonsense.

Rupert Murdoch's TalkTV is the most hideously transphobic channel on your screens. It's clearly breaching broadcast impartiality laws. Please join us in complaining to Ofcom. We took down GB News' homophobia - now let's join forces against Murdoch. goodlaw.social/22da37

Since it's #DanHannanDay let's run through the "brain of Brexit's" 5 greatest moments since 2016. First up The One Where Dan Predicted Independence Day in 2025

One of these photos is how HBO's The Watchmen depicted a fascist police force back in 2018 The others are real photos of the ICE agents who are rounding people up and disappearing them in Boston, Denver, L.A., and elsewhere

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In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

This is what it's like to live in a racist society. If the perpetrator is white, they're just some lone madman whose actions have no political implication. If they're an immigrant - in particular a dark-skinned Muslim immigrant - they represent their group and are part of a political attack.

My thoughts on the Trump/Harvard story is that it’s part of a bigger plan: educated people don’t vote for Trump. www.theatlantic.com/education/ar...

If this is true, I wish I’d have known two weeks ago when I decided to pay an extra £12 for a bigger passport.

whilst everyone on eurovision this came through and is massive news if it happens (not least I go to Belguim in the next couple of weeks) and makes massive difference to millions @chadbourn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Lmao

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